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Mayorkas Warns FEMA Lacks Funding for Hurricane Cleanup after Agency Spent over a Billion on Migrants
Caroline Downey, National Review, October 3, 2024
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has spent more than one billion dollars on services for illegal immigrants over the past year, now has insufficient funds to last through the hurricane season.
"We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what -- what is imminent."
Hurricane Helene has ravaged the west coast of Florida and several states in the Southeast, flooding towns, destroying properties, and killing over 160 people. Florida’s Gulf Coast experienced record-breaking storm surge in some areas, with a wall of water many feet above the normal high tide line crashing onto the land. The Blue Ridge Mountains suffered major devastation, with at least 57 people dead in and around Asheville, North Carolina.
Congress recently provided $20 billion for FEMA's disaster-relief fund as part of a short-term government spending bill to fund the government through mid-December.
The Shelter and Services Program (SSP), administered by the FEMA in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to "noncitizen migrants." Between FY2023 and FY2024, at least $1 billion has been funneled into the program. In just 2024, over $20 million went to the NYC Office of Management and Budget, much of that money to pay for migrants.
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program, another FEMA-funded program, has also been repurposed into a fund for migrants via federal distributions to local social-service organizations. The funding allocated to the program has climbed dramatically over recent years, from $30 million in 2019 to $425 million in 2023.
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